Longcat is long!

[yakalskovich]

I caught me a cat, and the Nazgul took a picture...

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

ZIS LUKS LIAK A PIKSHA FOR ZE ANIMAL CRUELTY CONTROL!!!!!

[yakalskovich]

He can look infinitely dramatic and tragic, can't he?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

YESHHHHH and ze lidl tail tip all folded in, woe! Carton cat perfect.

[yakalskovich]

Oh yes! But he's all affectionate again. Lucifer isn't one to sulk long, unlike Mephisto. If I did that with Mephisto, he'd sit around being visibly emo at me all evening.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

*sigh* you're talking to the person who had gotten herself into the tight spot again where she has to lift Kendra up onto her shelf after having carried her food there from the proper eating place. Again. Three times a day. And then handfeed her something else because to her power is more important than food. ANd THEN I worry days on end if her ears are too warm and if she sleeps too much and why etc.

[yakalskovich]

Compared to her, even Mephisto is sunny and simple...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Black Kobold is the simple one ... no, appears to be the sunny and simple one. Poor thing, I sit here to forget and she can't make me play ball. Did you see that lol or cat pic post, 10 reasons why I'm better than my cat? Not that lolly but.

[yakalskovich]

Nope I didn't. I'm not better than my cats, just different. I am human. They are cats. That's all.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

LOL, just you wait. One day you will wake up to find he has crapped in your crocs.

[yakalskovich]

That's more likely for Mephi to do than Lucifer, actually.

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

I don't know which is more adorable -- the ears or the tail!

[yakalskovich]

The ears might win. Narrowly. Because they're close to those big glowing eyes.

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

Or the rigid hind feet with those prehensile toes!

[yakalskovich]

Yes he sort of rolled them up with emo-ness and embarrassment.

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

Was he ashamed of his *ahem* length?

[yakalskovich]

Heh!!! He probably was. He is very long...

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

My cats go the other way. Very wide.

[yakalskovich]

Mephisto isn't quite as long, but instead skinny and awkward. He looks like a crash-landed bat at times.

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

I have often pondered the relationship of cats and bats...

Which brings me to my favorite folk tale:

There is a Spanish-Jewish folk-tale about a vampire cat called 'El Broosha.' According to legend, Lilith was the first wife of Adam, but left him and flew away as a vampire. After becoming immortal she took the shape of a large black cat that stalked babies at night, sucking out their blood. It has been suggested by author Mildred Kirk that this myth could be the origin of the idea that cats should not occupy the same room as a sleeping baby, as the animal might suffocate the child by sitting on its face.

[yakalskovich]

Yes, and Mephisto is a black cat, too...

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

You know cats were not around before the Ark, right?

Ancient Hebrew folklore tells of an incident in the Ark that resulted in the creation of the first cats. Apparently, before the flood there were no cats. But there was a pair of lions and there was fear that the shaggy beasts would attack the other animals. So Noah prayed to God for a solution. God answered by putting the lions into a deep sleep. When one problem was solved, another arose. Suddenly the Ark was overrun with mice. Noah got down on his knees again and prayed for a solution. God suggested that Noah whack the sleeping male lion on the nose. He did, the lion sneezed, and out of his nostrils came the first pair of cats. The rodent problem was solved.

I say, the mere sight of Mephisto's yawning cavernous mouth would strike fear in the rodent population in my barn. :)

[yakalskovich]

That is a wonderful myth! I like it. That's worth retelling -- sneezed out by a lion!

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

Can't you just see Mephisto coming out of the lion's left nostril while his elongated friend is ejected from the right???

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

Now that I reflect on it, that cat does look like he just got sneezed out.

It explains the ears...

[yakalskovich]

Well, it would have had to by a mightily big lion to sneeze out a cat as solid as Lucifer. Mephisto, now, he is quite narrow. I can see that for him.-

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

Is our lengthy orange friend Lucy-furr?

[yakalskovich]

Yes, that's him. They're brothers, actually, from the same mother but different litters.

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

Different fathers too, eh?

[yakalskovich]

Probably. You never can tell with cats.-

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

Lucifer has blue eyes. I tend to think of that as Persian or Siamese.

[yakalskovich]

Oh no, he hasn't really -- that was just the reflection of the flash in his eyes. In normal light, he has amber eyes, turning a bit greener towards the inside, just like Mephi's.